TRADEMARK LEADERS


UNITED KINGDOM


Name: Ben Allgrove Position: Partner Law firm: Baker McKenzie

Name: Arthur Artinian Position: Partner Law firm: K&L Gates

Name: Sara Ashby Position: Partner Law firm: Wiggin

Name: Simon Ayrton Position: Partner Law firm: Powell Gilbert LLP

Name: Simon Baggs Position: Partner Law firm: Wiggin

Name: Ian Bartlett Position: Partner Law firm: Beck Greener

Name: Simon Bennett Position: Partner Law firm: Fox Williams

Name: Richard Bizley Position: Senior Attorney Law firm: Avidity IP

Name: Andrew Bowler Position: Partner Law firm: Bristows

Name: Baris Boy Position: Managing Partner Law firm: Adres Patent

Name: Sally Britton Position: Partner Law firm: Mishcon de Reya

Name: Peter Brownlow Position: Intellectual Property Partner Law firm: Bird & Bird

Name: Rosie Burbidge Position: Partner Law firm: Gunnercooke

Name: Michael Burdon Position: Partner Law firm: Simmons & Simmons

Name: Victor Caddy Position: Trademark Attorney / Partner Law firm: Wynne Jones IP

Name: Douglas Campbell Position: Barrister Law firm: 3 New Square Intellectual Property

Name: Anna Carboni Position: Consultant Law firm: Wiggin

Name: Simon Clarke Position: Senior Associate Law firm: Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP

Name: Jonathan Clegg Position: Partner Law firm: Cleveland Scott York

Name: Simon Cohen Position: Partner Law firm: Taylor Wessing

Name: Katie Coltart Position: Partner Law firm: Kirkland & Ellis

Name: Helen Conlan Position: Partner Law firm: Mishcon de Reya

Name: Iain Connor Position: Partner Law firm: Pinsent Masons LLP

Name: Neville Cordell Position: Partner Law firm: Allen & Overy LLP

Name: Brian Cordery Position: Partner Law firm: Bristows

Name: Kristina Cornish Position: Partner Law firm: Kilburn & Strode LLP

Name: James Cornish Position: Partner Law firm: Page White & Farrer

Name: Neil Coulson Position: Department Chair - Intellectual Property / Partner Law firm: Baker Botts LLP

Name: Giles Crown Position: Joint Managing Partner Law firm: Lewis Silkin LLP

Name: Roy Crozier Position: Partner / Head of Intellectual Property Law firm: Clarke Wilmott

Name: Nicola Dagg Position: Partner Law firm: Kirkland & Ellis

Name: Peter Dawson Position: Trademark Attorney Law firm: Wiggin

Name: Jim Dennis Position: Partner Law firm: Simkins

Name: Jeremy Dickerson Position: Partner Law firm: Burges Salmon

Name: Richard Dickinson Position: Partner Law firm: Bristows

Edward Carstairs
Position: Partner
Law firm: Gill Jennings & Every
Phone: +44 20 7655 8500
Email: edward.carstairs@gje.com
Website: www.gje.com
Ed Carstairs is particularly known for his work with the food and drink industry, as well as sportswear brands and consumer electronics. He leads the GJE Food, Drink & Hospitality sector group and is involved with food and drink networks including the UK Food and Drink Exporters Association.
His work includes assisting clients from startups to large multinationals, with freedom to operate and filing strategies, handling objections and oppositions including negotiating settlements, health checks of existing portfolios, advising on the enforcement of rights and due diligence work for purchasers and sellers of a business.
Louise Gellman
Position: Partner
Law firm: CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang
Phone: +44 20 7524 6193
Email: louise.gellman@cms-cmno.com
Website: cms.law/en/gbr/
Louise Gellman specialises in trademark law, advising in relation to the protection, exploitation and enforcement of trademark rights in the UK, Europe and internationally.
She has a busy trademark prosecution and oppositions practice. Gellman advises clients in relation to worldwide and European re-branding projects, and has considerable experience in running trademark clearances and managing the subsequent filing programmes and international portfolios.
She provides strategic advice to brand owners regarding ownership and licensing structures and policing and enforcement.
She often gets involved in transactional work, advising on the IP aspects of corporate, banking and real estate transactions.

Name: Allie Elend Position: Partner Law firm: Venner Shipley

Name: Karen Fong Position: Partner Law firm: Keystone Law

Name: Jim Ford Position: Partner Law firm: Allen & Overy LLP

Name: Angela Fox Position: Partner Law firm: Maucher Jenkins

Name: Alistair Gay Position: Partner Law firm: Keltie

Name: Mike Gilbert Position: Partner Law firm: Marks & Clerk

Name: Penny Gilbert Position: Partner Law firm: Powell Gilbert LLP

Name: Simon Goodman Position: Partner Law firm: Reddie & Grose

Name: Katie Goulding Position: Senior Trademark Attorney Law firm: HGF Limited Leeds

Name: Ian Gruselle Position: Partner Law firm: Bristows

Name: Robert Guthrie Position: Partner Law firm: Osborne Clarke

Name: Gordon Harris Position: Partner Law firm: Gowling WLG LLP

Name: Guy Heath Position: Consultant Law firm: CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang

Name: Jeremy Hertzog Position: Partner / Head of IP Law firm: Mishcon de Reya

Name: Julia House Position: Director / European Trademark Attorney Law firm: Albright IP Ltd

Name: Paul Inman Position: Partner Law firm: Gowling WLG LLP

Name: Robert Jehan Position: Partner Law firm: Williams Powell

Name: Sarah Johnson Position: Senior Associate Law firm: Carpmaels & Ransford

Name: Cerryg Jones Position: Partner Law firm: Browne Jacobson LLP

Name: Paul Jordan Position: Partner Law firm: Bristows

Name: Charles Larsen Position: Partner Law firm: White & Case LLP

Name: Daniel Lim Position: Partner Law firm: Kirkland & Ellis

Name: Bill Lister Position: Partner Law firm: Appleyard Lees

Name: Stephanie Loeffler-Reading Position: Partner Law firm: HGF Limited London Name: Morag MacDonald Position: Partner / Head of International Intellectual Property Group Law firm: Bird & Bird

Name: Roland Mallinson Position: Partner Law firm: Taylor Wessing

Name: Charlotte May Position: QC Law firm: 8 New Square

Name: Susie Middlemiss Position: Owner Law firm: Slaughter & May

Name: Simon Miles Position: Partner Law firm: Edwin Coe

Name: Katherine Moggridge Position: Barrister Law firm: Three New Square IP

Name: Andrew Moir Position: Partner Law firm: Herbert Smith Freehills

Name: Kevin Mooney Position: Partner Law firm: Simmons & Simmons

Name: Katie Oliver Position: Director United Kingdom & European Trademark Attorney Law firm: Albright IP Ltd

Name: Kate O’Rourke Position: Partner / Head of Trademarks Law firm: Mewburn Ellis

Helen Newman
Position: Partner
Law firm: CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang
Phone: +44 20 7067 3625
Email: helen.newman@cms-cmno.com
Website: cms.law/en/gbr/
Helen Newman has experience of acting for high profile brands in the fashion and luxury goods market.
Her strategic approach to developing and protecting brands, covering commercial and contentious issues, is well regarded.
Her experience spans complex commercial acquisitions and licensing arrangements to managing cross-border litigation relating to trademarks, copyright and design rights.
Tom Scourfield
Position: Partner
Law firm: CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang
Phone: +44 20 7367 2707
Email: tom.scourfield@cms-cmno.com
Website: cms.law/en/gbr/
Global co-head of the CMS IP group, Tom Scourfield manages all aspects of brand protection, from registration, counselling and strategy, through to big ticket trademark enforcement.
He has substantial experience of the protection and enforcement of all IP rights, contentious and non-contentious, as well as marketing and advertising issues.
As a solicitor advocate, Scourfield is particularly well known for IP enforcement and has helped clients achieve their strategic goals in all forms of IP dispute resolution.
He has led cases at all levels of UK courts (civil and criminal) as well as the EUIPO, CJEU and beyond in multijurisdictional disputes.

Name: Jin Ooi Position: Partner Law firm: Kirkland & Ellis

Name: Emma Pitcher Position: Partner Law firm: Boult Wade Tennant

Name: Tony Pluckrose Position: Partner Law firm: Boult Wade Tennant

Name: Alasdair Poore Position: Head of Intellectual Property Law firm: Mills & Reeve

Name: Tim Powell Position: Partner Law firm: Powell Gilbert LLP

Name: Alexandra Pygall Position: Partner Law firm: Stephenson Harwood LLP

Name: David Rose Position: Partner Law firm: Mishcon de Reya

Name: Harriet Seymour Position: Partner Law firm: Fieldfisher

Name: Hiroshi J Sheraton Position: Partner Law firm: Baker McKenzie

Name: Mark Shillito Position: Partner Law firm: Herbert Smith Freehills

Name: Nick Shipp Position: Partner / Vice President Law firm: Kilburn & Strode LLP

Name: Sally Shorthose Position: Intellectual Property Partner Law firm: Bird & Bird

Name: Iain Stewart Position: Partner Law firm: Kilburn & Strode LLP

Name: Julius Stobbs Position: Founder Law firm: Stobbs IP

Name: David Stone Position: Partner / Global Head of Intellectual Property Law firm: Allen & Overy LLP

Name: Kate Swaine Position: Partner Law firm: Gowling WLG LLP

Name: Rebecca Swindells Position: Partner Law firm: Jones Day

Name: Oliver Tidman Position: Intellectual Property Lawyer Law firm: Tidman Legal

Name: Jane Wainwright Position: Partner / Patent Attorney Law firm: Potter Clarkson LLP

Name: Paul Walsh Position: Partner Law firm: Bristows

Name: Justin Watts Position: Partner Law firm: WilmerHale

Name: Andrew Wells Position: Partner Law firm: HGF Limited Leeds

Name: Laura Whiting Position: Counsel / Patent Litigation Law firm: Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

Name: Robert Williams Position: Partner / Co-Head of Intellectual Property Group Law firm: Bird & Bird

Name: Alex Wilson Position: Partner Law firm: Powell Gilbert LLP

Name: Imogen Wiseman Position: Owner Law firm: Cleveland Scott York

Name: Catherine Wolfe Position: Partner Law firm: Boult Wade Tennant

Sarah Wright
Position: Partner, Head of Intellectual Property
Law firm: CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang
Phone: +44 20 7067 3217
Email: sarah.wright@cms-cmno.com
Website: cms.law/en/gbr/
Sarah Wright handles a broad range of IP work from devising trademark filing strategies, conducting clearance searches and managing international portfolios, through to advising on all types of contentious trademark matters before the registries and courts.
She has experience of non-contentious matters including drafting and negotiating all types of licensing and franchising arrangements and co-existence agreements.
She advises agencies and brands on advertising issues including pre-clearance advice and ASA complaints.
Wright co-founded CMS equIP, the firm’s tech startup programme, which has become of the leading law firm programmes in the UK tech startup arena, and has capability in multiple jurisdictions.

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